Ok. I had to redo this. Please read and review. Let me know if I should keep going. Special apologies to Rofl 17.

Tony went to work early Wednesday morning, really early, 4am early to be exact. He couldn't sleep and felt the need for some physical exercise, so he went to work out in the gym at NCIS. Of course he was the only one there at 4am and therefore took full advantage of it. He walked over to the treadmill and started jogging at a steady pace, thinking.

He didn't want to admit the reason that he couldn't sleep was because their current case was bothering him. Tony knew he wasn't supposed to let it become personal in investigations, but he just couldn't help it here, no matter how hard he tried. This was just too close to home for him; a 7 year old little girl was missing, having been beat by her father and then kidnapped by him.

The grandmother had called her in as missing and then told Gibbs about her dad and what he did. They'd been working on the case for 2 days, and Tony was starting to lose hope that they would find the little girl: Alice. Alice was he name. Tony sincerely hoped that he would be the one to find the bastard you did this to her.

He had been thinking and not paying any attention, so when he looked down at the machine and seen that he had been running for an hour, he was very surprised. He stepped off the treadmill, and walked over to the punching bag, ready to take some of his anger out on it. He started darting around it jabbing, punching and kicking as hard as he could. He was really getting into it and letting go, he went to kicked out, miss stepped and fell awkwardly. He went to get up and felt immediate pain in his right knee he noticed that his knuckles were aching and looked down to reveal raw and swollen knuckles. "Damn." He thought "If Gibbs sees, he's going to be pissed..."

He sighed knowing he would be screwed for the rest of the day, and limped towards the shower. He enjoyed standing under the hot water, and by the time he had finished showering and getting dressed, he was late for work, which was ridiculous since he was in the same building. But lately shit happened, he had noticed. Particularly to him. He slowly made his way to the bullpen, trying hard to hide his hands and not limp, while also keeping his face clear.

"Nice of you to join us, DiNozzo." Gibbs greeted him angrily. He had been on edge since the beginning of this case. Cases involving children always got him, it was wrong to do something horrible to a child. He knew this one was affecting everyone pretty badly, especially Tony. He knew little about the man's past, but one thing he did know, was that his old man had knocked Tony around, upon occasion landing him in the hospital.

"Morning to you too Boss." Tony said. He was trying to hide the fact that he was limping. He needed to be in top form for this case, and couldn't let some new injury hold him back. He knew, however, that by the end of the day he was going to be wishing for a knee brace and ice. In the shower he had noticed a good amount of swelling around his knee, and it was tender to the touch.

Despite his best attempts to hide the limp, Tony noticed Gibbs looking at him with a scrutinizing expression, and hastened to his desk.

Gibbs watched as Tony made his way to his desk with slow deliberate movements. "Is DiNozzo limping? Why are his knuckles raw and swollen?" he asked himself. The more Gibbs looked at Tony the more he saw. He saw the very fine lines of pain around his mouth that anyone else would've missed. He saw the circles under Tony's eyes and the look of pure exhaustion on his face and wondered how much sleep, if any, his senior field agent had gotten last night.

He decided it was none of his business right now; his main concern was finding Alice alive and her father. As that thought passed through his mind his mind, his cell phone rang.

"Gibbs." he barked into the phone "On our way" he said snapping the phone shut. He was already moving as he gave out information "Metro cops said they just received a call from someone saying they saw an older man taking a little girl into an old warehouse outside of town. Let's move!"

Once they were in the car Gibbs was flying. He didn't seem to notice the speed limit signs, and none of the rest of the team was going to tell him. They were all just as worried about the safety of this little girl, and getting her good for nothing father. Navy Seal or not, there was never an excuse, but what with him being a Navy Seal and everything, this was going to be hard.

When they finally arrived they saw another car there.

"Tony, Ziva take the back. McGee with me through the front. Go."

They crept through the doors guns drawn all systems on high alert. What they saw before them made them sick and angry all at the same time.

Alice's father was standing up above them on a railing holding his daughter over the edge, yelling at her

"Isn't this fun Alice!!! You want to spend time with me, you worthless piece of shit!!! OK. FINE. ENJOY!" He then proceeded to shake her.

"If you drop that girl, I will shoot you Navy Seal Frank" Gibbs called up to the father

The man looked down at the four agents below him and laughed.

"Ha. I'm a Navy Seal. Let's see what you got." And with that he let Alice go.